07/18/2011

07/14/2011

People have to take some responsibility for educating themselves. Ask most people what GMO means and they haven't a clue. What are the real dangers of raw milk? What breed of chicken do they eat? There are different breeds of chickens. Where does their meat come from? As a whole Americans are woefully uninformed about what they shove in their pie holes. This confuses me to some degree. You sre building your body with every bite you take. Do you want decent building materials or do you want the minimal it takes to maintain you. Think about it.

Here is the trailer to a movie that might help clarify what big business wants to do to control food and feed you food that keeps you stupid. That's right, keep shoveling it in and see what happens.

07/08/2011

I am a farmer. And what these scientists want to do is experiment on a global scale with transgenic organisms. It is just insanity, and greed. Take the time a read this. Educate yourself. Then act. Demand good wholesome food. The corporate agriculture doesn't want to feed the world, they want to control the food.

06/30/2011

Agriculture's critical dependence on fossil fuels and the clearing of forests,
grasslands and prairies for farming are the top two factors responsible for
today's massive global increases in CO2.

Factory smokestacks, once seen
as icons of industrial progress, are now viewed with the same concern as a
smoking tailpipe. Climate change has fueled an onslaught of droughts, floods and
fires that have buffeted the world, killing tens of thousands and causing
billions of dollars in damage. Some island nations like the Maldives are fated
to see their countries swallowed by the sea. The Global Humanitarian Forum holds
climate change directly responsible for 300,000 deaths a year - a figure that
may need to be ratcheted upwards now that scientists have linked climate change
to the increasing frequency of deadly volcanoes, earthquakes and
landslides.

While an increase of 2 degrees Celsius could cause the
extinction of millions of species, climate change is already threatening food
yields and the livelihoods of peasant farmers around the globe. The Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) warns that a global temperature increase of
two-to-four degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels could reduce crops yields
15-35 percent in Africa and Asia and 25-35 percent across the Middle East. When
most of us think about the root causes of global warming, we think of companies
like Ford, GM, Toyota, Honda, Chevron and ExxonMobil. But the problem isn't just
one of cars and smokestacks; it's also a problem of cows and cornstalks. While
governments, the media and even the some climate activists tend to focus on
industry and automobiles to rein in pollution, the largest single factor stoking
global warming may be the industrial food system.

Powerful corporations
like Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill, Dean Foods, Dow AgroSciences, Monsanto and
Tyson share a major - though largely overlooked - role in fueling climate
change. These giant multinationals have seized control over much of the planet's
food resources, dominating the growing, processing and sales of meat, grains and
oils. ADM and Cargill now control 65% of the world's trade in grain. Monsanto
and Syngenta control 20% of the $60-billion market in bio-engineered seeds. The
corporate campaign to "patent nature" and control the world's food supply has
been so successful that today, 85% of US corn is genetically engineered.